תהלים 10:15

Hebrew Modern Translation

שבר זרוע רשע ורע תדרוש רשעו בל תמצא׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
זרוע רשע ורע תדרוש-רשעו בל-תמצא

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
שְׁ֭בֹר זְרֹ֣ועַ רָשָׁ֑ע וָ֝רָ֗ע תִּֽדְרוֹשׁ־רִשְׁעֹ֥ו בַל־תִּמְצָֽא ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
בֹר זְרוֹעַ רָשָׁע וָרָע תִּֽדְרוֹשׁ־רִשְׁעוֹ בַל־תִּמְצָֽא ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Break: Psalms 3:7, Psalms 37:17, Job 38:15, Ezekiel 30:21, Ezekiel 30:22, Zechariah 11:17

seek: Psalms 7:9, 2 Kings 21:12-15, Jeremiah 2:34, Ezekiel 23:48, Zephaniah 1:12

Reciprocal: Job 10:6 - General Job 22:9 - arms Job 35:9 - the arm Job 36:6 - giveth Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 58:6 - Break their Psalms 146:7 - executeth Isaiah 37:17 - hear Jeremiah 11:20 - revealed Jeremiah 48:25 - and his Habakkuk 1:13 - wherefore Luke 18:7 - avenge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man],.... His power and strength, so that he shall not be able to hold the sword, to strike a blow, or do any hurt to the people of God; see Ezekiel 30:21. This prayer is in some measure already fulfilled in antichrist, the man of sin, or pope of Rome; though his kingdom is not broke to pieces; as it will be when Christ's kingdom shall be more visibly set up, to which reference is had in Psalms 10:16; see Daniel 2:44; yet his strength is weakened, his arm is broken, he has not the power he had, nor can he tyrannise and do the mischief he once did: "but as [for] the evil man" m, for so the words should be read, there being an "athnach" under the word "wicked", which ends the proposition there:

seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none; which designs a thorough search after sin, full punishment of it, and the entire ruin and destruction of the wicked; and the sense is, that God would make a strict inquiry into the wickedness of the man of sin, which he promised himself he would not, Psalms 10:13; and that he would punish him and his followers to the uttermost for it, until there should not be one of the antichristian party found upon earth; with which sense agrees

Psalms 10:16; see Psalms 104:35.

m ורע "improbum quod attinet, requiras", c. Gejerus so Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Break thou the arm of the wicked - The arm is the instrument by which we effect a purpose, and especially in wielding a sword or a spear, as in battle; and if the arm is broken, we are powerless. The psalmist, therefore, prays that God would render the wicked, in this respect, powerless.

And the evil man - Of all the evil, or the wicked. In regard to the prayer here, see the note at Psalms 5:10.

Seek out his wickedness until thou find none - Until it is all punished; until there has been a full recompense. This is a wish that no wicked act of his should be forgotten; that exact justice should be rendered. If it is right to punish the wicked at all, it is right to deal with them just as they deserve; if any wickedness may properly be punished, all may be; and, whatever may occur, the sinner may be assured that he will not be punished merely for a part of his sins. If God punishes the wicked at all, there will be nothing left unpunished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:15. Break thou the arm — Destroy his power, deprive him of his influence, that he may be no longer able to oppress.

Seek out his wickedness till thou find none. — All his public haunts and private ways shall be investigated; thou wilt bring all his villanies to light, and continue to inflict punishment, while there is a crime to punish. Or, "Continue to judge and punish transgressors, till not one is to be found." This agrees with the following verse.